Slick V3.3 manual General Options Exit Tab

General Options Dialog

•Smart next window - (Not available in SlickEdit Core.) Use this combo box to select from the following different windowing styles:

•Smart next window - This is the default style. It allows you to press Ctrl+Tab (next_window com- mand) to switch the focus between the two most frequently used open editor windows, rather than al- ways going to the next window. Press Ctrl+Shift+Tab (prev_window command) to switch between all open editor windows. This style is similar to how Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab work in other Win- dows MDI applications, like Visual Studio.

•Reorder windows - If selected, activating an existing window reinserts the window after the current window. Neither Ctrl+Tab nor Ctrl+Shift+Tab reorders the windows. This option is very good for switching between more than two files, but it is not the Windows standard (which means you’re prob- ably not used to it). It's similar to the way SlickEdit Core reorders buffers.

•No window reordering - If selected, newly opened windows are inserted after the current window, like in all settings. Activating an existing window, pressing Ctrl+Tab, or pressing Ctrl+Shift+Tab does not reorder windows. This option is best if you like to memorize the hot key numbers on the Window menu (for example, Alt+W,1 because it attempts to keep the hot key numbers the same.

•Use block cursor - If selected, a text mode-style cursor is used instead of a vertical cursor.

•Window left margin (inch) - If selected, this specifies the space between the left edge of the window and the editor text in inches. This value has no effect when there are bitmaps displayed in the left mar- gin, since more space is necessary.

•Max clipboards - Specifies the maximum number of clipboards saved. By default, a stack of your last 50 clipboards are kept, any one of which can be pasted with Ctrl+Shift+V.

•Word help filename - Specifies the Word Help file names used by the wh command (Help → F1 Index Help or Ctrl+F1), wh2 command (Ctrl+F2), and wh3 command.

Exit Tab

The Exit tab contains settings that occur when exiting the editor. To access these settings, click Window

→Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the General setting. On the General Options dialog, select the Exit tab.

Figure 10.29. General Options: Exit Tab

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